Orland Kay ARMSTRONG

(1893-1987)

ARMSTRONG, Orland Kay, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Willow Springs, Howell
County, Mo., October 2, 1893; Drury College, Springfield, Mo.,
A.B., 1916; Cumberland University Law School, Lebanon, Tenn.,
LL.B., 1922; University of Missouri School of Journalism at
Columbia, bachelor of journalism, M.A. in journalism, 1925; was
admitted to the bar in 1922, but did not practice; teacher of
English and public speaking at Southwest Baptist College, Bolivar,
Mo., in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War served from
private to lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps
1917-1919; Y.M.C.A. welfare representative in France in 1919 and
1920; established department of journalism at University of Florida
at Gainesville in 1925 and served as director 1925-1928; author,
magazine writer, and newspaper correspondent; secretary of Missouri
Century of Progress Commission 1930, 1932; delegate to Republican
State conventions, 1932-1945, 1950, 1952, and 1966; delegate to
Republican National Conventions in 1944 and 1952; member of the
State house of representatives 1932-1936 and 1942-1944; member of
editorial staff of Reader’s Digest from 1944 until his death;
member of the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Post
Office and Civil Service in 1947 and 1948; elected as a Republican
to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; was a resident of
Springfield, Mo., until his death there April 15, 1987; interment
in Greenlawn Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present